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Inference in MCMC step selection models

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Habitat selection models are used in ecology to link the spatial distribution of animals to environmental covariates, and identify preferred habitats. The most widely used models of this type, resource selection functions, aim to capture the steady-state distribution of space use of the animal, but they assume independence between the observed locations of an animal. This is unrealistic when location data display temporal autocorrelation. The alternative approach of step selection functions embed habitat selection in a model of animal movement, to account for the autocorrelation. However, inferences from step selection functions depend on the underlying movement model, and they do not readily predict steady-state space use. We suggest an analogy between parameter updates and target distributions in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, and step selection and steady-state distributions
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Théo Michelot, Paul Blackwell, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Jason Matthiopoulos. Inference in MCMC step selection models. Biometrics, 2019, 76 (2), pp.438-447. ⟨10.1111/biom.13170⟩. ⟨hal-02381505⟩
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